Monthly Archive for October, 2010

: October, 2010

If you thought Dunder Mifflin’s Michael Scott was bad, wait until you see this. Tribune Co.’s Lee Abrams is known for sending out, um, wacky emails to company employees in an effort to foster outside-the-box thinking. It’s all part of his job as the media company’s ‘chief innovation officer,’ but wh … …

Got any file names on your computer’s hard drive that use double entendres? Do you get coy with what you call photos, documents or video files? Given a recent ruling by a federal judge, you may want to go for a more, um, conventional naming convention . . . Forbes.com’s Not-So-Private Parts blog rep … …

Absence does make the heart grow fonder. Amid all the cheers, tears and hugs in Chile where miners are being hauled up to freedom, there is another real-life soap opera taking place. Wives of the trapped miners and mistresses of the miners are apparently both at the San Jose Mine. In some cases, bot … …

When all 33 miners in Chile trapped underground for 69 days have returned to the surface after a miracle rescue, and the cameras go away, their lives are unlikely to go back to normal. Mental health workers who have looked at similar incidents are concerned about depression among the miners and thei … …

ABOVE: Banksy, a controversial British graffiti artist, created intro to Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons. Here is some of his more conventional unconventional work. Banksy’s Simpsons intro created something of a buzz on the internet this week, mostly because nobody actually watches The Simpsons any … …

Looks like Courteney Cox will be on the prowl in Cougar Town – and not just when she’s playing Jules on the hit ABC show. Cox and her husband, David Arquette have announced they’re splitting. Like most Hollywood couples, they’ve tossed out the cliches about remaining committed friends and responsibl … …

Google’s tests in California of cars that drive themselves are awfully cool, but have some questioning how the company is being steered. The six specially equipped Toyota Priuses and one Audi TT have logged more than 140,000 miles from San Francisco’s crooked Lombard Street to Hollywood Boulevard. T … …

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten sandwich, that whosoever believeth in it shall not starve, but have everlasting fullness.” This is how JaShong King, a photo editor from Toronto, describes his beloved McRib, paraphrasing the Gospel of John. He is not alone. The Wall Street … …

Sports tribute videos don’t get a whole lot better than this and with Sunday’s Bill Buckner-esque error by Braves second baseman Brooks Conrad, Giants fans shouldn’t stop believing. Produced by Whitecollarbrawler.com, the guys that brought you “Ghost Ride the Volvo,” these guys score another viral h … …

The biggest life lesson that Karen Owen will most likely take away from college? There are no take-backs in the viral black hole of the World Wide Web. According to the Huffington Post, the 2010 Duke University grad’s risque mock-dissertation, entitled “An Education Beyond The Classroom: Excelling In The Realm of Horizontal Academics,” has become [ … …

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